Chapter 414 Resources of the Moon
At this time, Huang Xiru stood up and said, Xiaoyi, there is one more thing I want to say, that is, although our company has huge expenses now, in addition to the current flying cars and aerospace aircraft, our Colorful Space Exploration Company
, it is not impossible to make a profit. In fact, if we expand this business, our Colorful Space may even turn a loss into a profit.
We must know that the materials we humans transport to space now basically cost more than 20,000 US dollars per kilogram. If converted into U.S. dollars, the price of each kilogram of materials is more than 60,000 yuan. After all, except for our Colorful Stone Group,
In addition, other countries or companies waste a lot of money every time they launch a rocket, and no one can be sure that every rocket launch will be 100% successful. In fact, the success rate of rocket launches in many countries in the world is less than 100%.
An 80/80 success rate.
In addition, many countries now want to build their own space stations in space. Regardless of the size of the space station, the cost of launching a space station is simply not something that ordinary countries can afford. After all, a space station only costs ten years from the time it is put into use to the time it explodes.
World for decades and twenty years, and during this period to maintain the operation of the space station and the consumption of materials, all the costs of the entire process are added up. According to my calculations, the cost of each gram of materials exceeds 1,000 US dollars, which is 6,000 yuan.
Above Chinese dollars.
And this is the opportunity for our Colorful Space. If our company can start these businesses and use our "Overlord Gun" class aerospace plane to transport these materials, and in terms of price, we can even be lower than the price of rocket launch.
There will definitely be countless people asking us to transport them.
After all, compared to rockets, the aerospace plane we developed is not only not comparable to rockets in terms of cost, it is not even comparable to rockets in terms of safety. After all, even as a rocket with the highest launch success rate in the world
The country and the Dahua Empire cannot guarantee that their rockets will be 100% successful, and the aerospace plane we developed, although it cannot guarantee 100% safety, can definitely achieve a success rate of more than 99%.
After listening to Huang Xiru's words, Zhang Yi thought for a moment and asked Xiang Juncai on the side: "Xiang Gong! Please calculate, based on the situation of our colorful space, how much does it cost per ton for us to transport materials?"
"Mr. Zhang! We have made a calculation on this in the past two days. Our "Overlord Gun" aerospace plane can transport up to about 75 tons of materials each time. In addition to consuming several tons of water and fuel for the round trip, it only consumes
For some nuclear fuel, if you add the loss of the aerospace aircraft, the cost for each round trip is about one million, so I think Mr. Huang’s idea is very feasible," Xiang Juncai said.
"Okay! Very good. I didn't expect you to think so far ahead, Sister Huang. Sister Huang, I will leave this matter to you. If you need any help, you can choose from anyone in the company." Zhang Yi said happily.
"Don't worry! Xiaoyi, I will definitely do this well. After all, it does not count abroad. There is a lot of demand in this area in China. After all, compared with the average rocket transportation cost of more than 6,000 yuan per gram, we
The cost of an aerospace plane is about 13,000 per ton, which still includes the damage cost of the aerospace plane, but if the damage cost is not included, it will be even lower, so I am very confident."
Huang Xiru said.
At this time, Huang Xiru thought for a moment, and then said: "Xiaoyi, in addition to what I just said, we can also develop the space mining industry. Of course, this is a long-term plan for the future. After all, meteorites in space
China is rich in minerals. In addition to iron meteorites, there are also a large number of rare earth minerals and rare metal minerals, and many rare minerals are even more precious than gold and diamonds. In the future, we can develop some professional space mining unmanned spacecraft to mine these
For minerals, smaller ones can be transported directly back to the earth, while larger ones can be placed on the moon first, and can be refined on the moon after the lunar base is completed.
At the same time, we can also open up businesses such as space tourism. If it is other countries or companies, it is definitely a huge problem to conduct space tourism. However, since our company has developed an aerospace plane, this is not a problem for our company at all.
There are no technical difficulties, and at the same time, safety can be guaranteed.
"Okay! Sister Huang, you will be responsible for all these matters." After finishing speaking, Zhang Yi turned to Xiang Juncai and said: "Xiang Gong! Now that our space station has begun construction, our moon palace plan will also follow.
We are about to enter the substantive stage. I wonder if you are ready for the project.
As we all know, China is rich in various minerals. Its reserves of rare metals are even greater than the earth beneath our feet.
At the same time, the moon also has abundant reserves of iron, titanium, potassium, phosphorus and other minerals. Not to mention others, the rocks on the moon's surface alone contain more than 60 kinds of minerals, and there are even many medium-sized minerals that are not found on the earth.
Moreover, many minerals on the moon are very easy to mine. Take iron as an example. The iron content in just five centimeters of sand and soil on the moon's surface is as high as hundreds of millions of tons.
In addition, the iron on the moon is also very easy to refine, because the iron on the moon is mainly iron oxide, and you only need to separate the iron and oxygen. At the same time, the surface of the moon is also rich in aluminum ore.
Of course, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is that the soil of the moon is also rich in helium 3, and helium 3 is the main raw material for helium nuclear fusion, and this nuclear fusion does not produce neutrons, nor does it produce neutrons.
That is to say, this huge change will not produce radioactive materials, is safe and pollution-free, and is an easily controlled nuclear fusion. It is not only suitable for establishing nuclear power plants on the ground, but is also very suitable for the use of various aerospace equipment.
You must know that their colorful aerospace aircraft now uses nuclear reactors as the source of power for the aerospace aircraft, but in fact the core part of this reactor is very small, even just larger than an ordinary tea cup.
, but the weight of the entire reactor is as high as tens of tons, and most of the weight and volume are for the isolation layer to prevent nuclear radiation. If helium 3 is used as fuel, the weight of the reactor can be controlled to 10
Within tons, and the power can reach more than ten or even dozens of times that of current nuclear reactors.
If helium-3 on the moon can really be developed, then the Colorful Stone Group will no longer have to worry about energy issues for a long time.
Chapter completed!